How India became a high speed failed and miserable version of America
Paramita Sengupta
Jul. 15, 2012

Americanization of India that started twenty years back was a crude design of a bunch of Harvard, Oxford and Cambridge educated rookies. The country took all the questionable aspects of American prosperity, maintaining hardly any of the good aspects of American economic culture. The biggest loss for India was its collapse of social structures that allowed it to fight foreign invaders for decades.

Some of the Indian newspapers have started calling it the “the final stamp of globalization - a failed and miserable version of America.”

Personal debt that was nonexistent went through the roof. Ce3ll phone and Internet culture saw the boom of corruption, rape, molestation, police brutality, and lack of compassion for the weak and poor.

People bought cars, not one but many with borrowed money not thinking if the road infrastructure and personal wealth to fuel the same were adequate.

Engineering colleges propped up everywhere to fill the talent needs of American businesses and the desire to be H1B cyber-coolie in America without understanding the difference between software engineering and other branches of engineering.

A few years back the climax of Indian prosperity saw the fast growth of debt based American consumerism, a copycat of the West Coast techie culture that has infiltrated India’s own booming technology sector. It signals the latest episode in India’s remarkable process of Americanization but the underlying corruption culture disturbed it all - the foundation of the so called India's American dream was unstable at best, most likely paper thin and made of evaporating camphor.



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